# kaal:claim:4755632-031

**Claim.** The existing code review market does not provide publicly transparent pricing, and that opacity is deliberate because neither client nor code reviewer benefits from public scrutiny of the prices, which arguably harms the public for the benefit of the few market players.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- applies to the existing centralized code review market

**Source quote.**

> In the existing system, the unilateral pricing is not disclosed because both the client and code reviewer may not benefit from public scrutiny of the prices.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning* (2024), Price Discovery, page 40

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4755632

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**Failure mode.** Deliberate Price Opacity  (family: information-asymmetry)

**Topics.** disclosure, economics, open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** price-opacity, code-review-market, public-harm, price-discovery

**Related claims.**

- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-025
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-033

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